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...April 25 for completion of the autonomy talks, which are to resume later this month in Cairo. By April, if all goes well, Egypt will have got back all of the Sinai Peninsula, seized by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Some U.S. officials fear that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat may lose interest in further talks with Israel once he has achieved that goal...
...Egypt you will find an island of love, friendship and democracy-an open country with happy people who have hope for the future." So said Anwar Sadat just two years ago. Today the President of Egypt might have trouble locating many knowledgeable Egyptians who would endorse so sanguine an assessment of the national life...
...June, fighting erupted among rival worshipers in a Cairo slum and left at least 14 dead. Soldiers were posted in front of Coptic churches but failed to thwart a bomb attack in August, on a Coptic wedding party, that killed three, including two Muslim guests. Last week President Anwar Sadat made good on his threat to deal harshly with what his government has described as "sectarian sedition." In the most sweeping crackdown since he took power nearly eleven years ago, Sadat's government banned six political publications and jailed at least 1,100 of his most volatile critics: religious...
Thus ended, on a cautiously encouraging note, the eleventh meeting in the past four years between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. The mood was more somber than at most of the previous encounters: there were no exaggerated compliments, no excessive expressions of confidence, no crowds of cheering Egyptians to greet the visitors from Israel. But the two-day meeting in Alexandria did serve to reduce the tensions that had been building over the past three months. And it produced one accomplishment: a commitment by the two men to resume the long-stalled talks...
Last week, as Begin met in Alexandria with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, it was Sharon who spelled out the final schedule for the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai desert next April. A fortnight earlier he had issued new guidelines for Israeli forces serving in the occupied territories. Henceforth, they should avoid entering Arab schools in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights; roadblock checks should be as civil as possible; and efforts should be made not to treat large segments of the Arab population as terrorist sympathizers. The orders amounted to an admission that the dour, ironfisted occupation policy...